You would never expect a weekslong trial in Harrisburg about such an important yet super-complicated issue — whether wide disparities in school funding across rural, urban and suburban school districts in Pennsylvania violate the state constitution — to create a viral moment that would rock social media. Yet a brief exchange between a lawyer for budget-crunching GOP lawmakers in the Keystone State and a superintendent in a remote rural district in the deer-hunter country of north-central Pennsylvania did exactly that, by voicing an entire nation’s anxieties about how America educates its young…

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